Storyline: The Walking Dead #50
Date: June 25, 2008
Price: $2.99 US
Writer: Robert Kirkman
Artist: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Rus Wooton

Synopsis: The five-oh. It’s been a long time coming, but Kirkman has made it to issue 50 with the little zombie book that could. In this issue we follow Carl, left slightly alone since last issue. Read catch up, because I’m not spoiling it for anyone who waits for the trades.

Anyway this issue sees Carl dealing with the ramifications of last issue, as well as coming into his own as a character. It’s been a long time coming. In all honesty, I’ve never cared for Carl until this issue. He’s always seemed like a pain in the ass background character with a cowboy hat. Not anymore. Not at all.

Opinion: I want to let it be known that I love zombies. Anything to do with zombies I tend to read, absorb and spit back out in a morphed form in a story. The Walking Dead is perhaps the only good zombie story currently being printed and it deserves all the praise it’s fan base gives it.

Kirkman has a way of portraying the zombies as a background character and bring humans to the surface. You don’t see this too often in stories following the ambulatory deceased. Normally it’s the same old crap over and over again. Dead rise, eat the living and all we get to see is some action story without any heart.

Read my full review after the jump.

However there are a few gems in the zombie genre, The Walking Dead is one of them. Kirkman uses zombies and end of the world to tell a very human story with heart. I find myself feeling for the characters in this story and believing their struggle could be real, even with the dead walking and menacing the living.

That’s what a true story about zombies should do. Have heart, make the reader or watcher and what have you feel for the characters and feel disgust at how terrible humans can be. I mean, I felt that way when the Governor did the things he did. (If you haven’t read what he’s done yet, please, do.)

Anyway enough of my ramblings about the zombie genre. Today’s issue, issue 50, was fantastic. It’s a great chance for new readers to jump on, which is something most main stream comics never do. I have a feeling that things are just going to get worse from here for poor Carl. And I won’t even voice what I think will happen to Rick.

There is one big thing that annoys me about the last two issues of The Walking Dead. I want to see what happened to the other survivors of the prison. Where is Michonne? Where is Andrea? I’d like to know and I’m sure Kirkman will not leave us wanting for long.

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